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Agency Description
The Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) provides leadership on issues of economic justice by advancing racial equity and inclusive growth to ensure that all Philadelphians share in the city’s prosperous future and by alleviating the immediate impact of poverty on individuals, families and communities. CEO is Philadelphia’s Community Action Agency (CAA); CAAs are private or public agencies created by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act and federally designated to receive Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funding.
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In CEO’s work, client and neighborhood-level data helps us tell the story of what we do. It deepens our perspective on the communities we serve. And it holds our organization accountable for both short- and long-term goals. On a weekly basis, we use geospatial data in support of grant applications, internal and external evaluation initiatives, and to support ongoing programming and reporting efforts. Changing research and changing demographics in Philadelphia neighborhoods mean we need regularly updated pictures of what economic opportunities are available where within our city. We also need maps of where these opportunities are missing.
This position will be responsible for many of these efforts, with a special focus on mapping and describing geospatial data. A successful candidate will quickly be able to accurately contextualize CEO programs within their neighborhoods. Eventually, helping to bring stronger and better targeted programming to the communities in Philadelphia who have most need of empowerment and opportunity. By producing a better, more granular picture, the Geospatial and Statistical Analysis Manager will help better distribute resources and economic opportunity across Philadelphia’s neighborhoods.
Reporting to the Director of Research and Evaluation, the Geospatial and Statistical Analysis Manager will lead the organization’s geospatial data collection and mapping related to all evaluation tasks. Using the full suite of online and desktop Esri products, as well as other data analysis tools for tabular data: the Evaluation Manager will produce maps and analysis that communicate clearly about both the need for and impact of our ongoing work. The Manager will need to be comfortable working with a wide array of spatial and non-spatial administrative data, using both programming tools, visualization platforms, and excel to deliver quantitative findings. Their analysis will support honing CEO’s strategy, promoting our policy advocacy work, contributing to winning grant applications, and improving ongoing program implementation.
The Geospatial and Statistical Analysis Manager will be the office expert on data workflows that feature geocoding and/or spatial joins. They will also leverage publicly available data sources such as census data. The manager will advise and support internal and external program evaluation. Often, the Manager will lead research efforts to provide geographic, socioeconomic, and demographic context, thus supporting applications, memos, and reports. The Manager will contribute both analysis and writing to evaluation plans, study design, and outcomes measurement for individual programs.
The Research and Evaluation team has multiple staff, each bringing different methodological and subject area expertise. This position will help lead the team’s geospatial data analysis and support other quantitative research methods with their coding and data analysis skills. All members of the team will be charged with producing rigorous, reproducible insights about CEO programing and Philadelphia as a whole. In this case, this means a mix of coded tabular data workflows and carefully documented map design tasks. Some degree of coding experience is required in addition to a background in Geospatial analysis and mapping. Esri products are preferred, but substitute experience with R packages like ggplot2, Python packages like geopandas, QGIS, and related tools will also be considered. For statistical analysis, the expectation is that the applicant will have extensive data management skills. The manager will take full ownership of a fully programmed and reproducible Extract Transform Load (ETL) process, delivered alongside rigorous descriptive and exploratory data analysis. For this work, open-source tools (like Python or R) are preferred, but users who have experience with other scripted programs (e.g. Stata) will be considered, provided they are willing to learn new programing languages.
In addition to geospatial and statistical analysis, this position will help manage and support external evaluation relationships. This includes cleaning and delivering administrative datasets, giving feedback on consultants’ deliverables, and negotiating and complying with data use agreements. If a candidate can show experience in these areas as well as their geospatial background, that’s a plus. That said, program evaluation skills are less essential to have on day one, compared to the geospatial capabilities described above.
Essential Functions
Quantitative Data Methods
Communication To Facilitate Data Sharing
Expanding Research Capacity
Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Supervisory Responsibilities
Other Specialties, Certifications, Physical Requirements, and Work Conditions
TO APPLY: Interested candidates must submit a cover letter and resume.
Salary Range: $75,000 - $80,000
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*The successful candidate must be a city of Philadelphia resident within six months of hire
Effective May 22, 2023, vaccinations are no longer required for new employees that work in non-medical, non-emergency or patient facing positions with the City of Philadelphia. As a result, only employees in positions providing services that are patient-facing medical care (ex: Nurses, doctors, emergency medical personnel), must be fully vaccinated.
The City of Philadelphia is an Equal Opportunity employer and does not permit discrimination based on race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, source of income, familial status, genetic information or domestic or sexual violence victim status. If you believe you were discriminated against, call the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations at 215-686-4670 or send an email to [email protected].
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Full Time
$121k-160k (estimate)
07/21/2024
08/27/2024
PHILA.GOV
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